Killer-B,
I encountered some problems verifying your claims:
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But in looking at that one report - May 28, 2009 was a bad day for EVERYONE - as the USD spiked some insane amount without ever "retracing" 20 pips - I think it went 525 pips on the USD /JPY in one or two hours (I'd have to scroll back in time and see) but that did toast my DEMO account too
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Please find attached a USDJPY D1 chart from my live account (I had to 'zip' it because this *$(#!$ site flagged a jpg dimension error that did not make any sense when I tried to upload the 'jpg'). In it, the mouse is pointing at May 28, 2009 and you can read from the status line that the open price was 95.302, close was 96.956 for a total range that day of 65.4 pips. As a matter of fact, the range of that entire period was not abnormal for the pair.
Here are some prices before and after May 28th:
May 26: o:94.809, c:94.928, r:11.9 pips
May 27: o:94.929, c:95.310, r:38.1 pips
May 29: o:96.951, c:95.325, r:162.6 pips
Jun 01: o:95.281, c:96.591, r:131 pips
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All that said though - and like I've mentioned earlier on - if this "person" (tester) had saw that that was a Non-Farm Payroll day (I remember it VERY well!)
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May 28, 2009 was a Thursday, so it could not have been a non-Farm Payroll day. There were some major USD news events and some non-so major JPY events.
According to the Forex Factory,
May 28, 2009 was not a non-Farm Payroll day. That was
May 8, 2009
The 4xproject.com statement file has the following problem days (IMO):
April 15, 2009
May 27-28 2009
Checking the Forex calendar, April 15th was a Wednesday. There were a couple of major USD news items but it was not a non-Farm Payroll day.
Ditto for May 27 and 28. The 27th was a Wednesday which saw one major news item and I have already spoke about Thursday the 28th of May.
So now I am really confused about FF and your comments. Please clarify.
Rick